Chinese Tourists 'forced' into buying by angry beach vendors on Pattaya Island

[Old Croc]

I have being coming to Thailand for over Ten years and no vendor has ever thrown merchandise at me and threaten my with bodily harm if I did not buy

I feel slighted

What am I chop liver?

If you had been chop suey you'd be in with a chance.

[Colabamumbai]

Well it is good that they did not force them into having sex.

[Gillyflower]

They were left with four PLASTIC wallets.

[springheeled jack]

the sooner these so called beach vendors are caught the better this is not good for tourism to be threatened with bodily harm they need to be caught and incarcerated quickly.

[puukao]

I am sure it is real crocodile!!! very rare and great deals on the beaches of pattaya!!!!

you can take them back and sell them for big money!!!

i sell you 10 now, you give me luck, you give me money!!!

fake???? fake because from china??? you are chinese!!!

(fireworks)

[never me]

More Quality from Thailand... This will keep the tourist coming.

Oh great. Someone who believes everything he reads and makes a judgement on it and puts it on the whole country for good measure. Pathetic

So you think its a good way to treat tourist.....Pathetic

[soc]

l have had trouble on the beach from sunglass vendors when l wouldn't buy.

l had a perfectly good set of sunglasses on & he wanted me to hand them over to him to "try them out".

He got very belligerent when l refused.

This happened twice,with different vendors.

What would he/they have done?

Broken them, so that l would have to buy from him?

As l walked away, one of them kept shouting after me, "show me. show me".

This was on Beach Road, Pattaya.

[DrTuner]

The tourists need attitude adjustment, don't they know their role is to give up the money and <deleted>.

[cyberfarang]

The Chinese had 2 options. Either have money but no wallets to keep it in or have wallets but no cash to put in them. Well, they can`t have their cakes and eat them.

[houlicha]

Not much different from the upstairs boys in Patpong who serve you one drink, give you and your partner a bill for $2,800 baht, and meet you at at the door if you try to leave with paying the full amount. It happened to me, just lucky there was a large group just coming in as we we were leaving and they decided not to make a scene.

[bark]

I wonder why the police did not go back today and find the Thai vendors. See if the story is true or not. If true then get the money back.

[Mr Money Bags]

I wonder why the police did not go back today and find the Thai vendors. See if the story is true or not. If true then get the money back.

VERY small needles in some VERY large haystacks.

Good Luck with that venture.

You're Welcome!!

[Inyourendo]

Does it work with slurpees

[GeckosDiving]

More Quality from Thailand... This will keep the tourist coming.

Oh great. Someone who believes everything he reads and makes a judgement on it and puts it on the whole country for good measure. Pathetic

[arrowsdawdle]

Very strange.

You get the feeling there's a little bit more to this story ?

it just don't sound right !!!!!!

No, it doesn't sound right...it sounds like Thailand.

[arrowsdawdle]

I wonder why the police did not go back today and find the Thai vendors. See if the story is true or not. If true then get the money back.

If the BIB got the money back, what makes you think the Chinese would see any of it?

[arrowsdawdle]

the sooner these so called beach vendors are caught the better this is not good for tourism to be threatened with bodily harm they need to be caught and incarcerated quickly.

Mexico solved this decades ago by restricting beach vendors to a covered marketplace that tourists are free to visit or avoid. Works quite well.

[slipperylobster]

Were these the fake crocodile skin wallets?

They might of thought they were real, and ordered a bunch. Perhaps, on closer inspection..they changed their minds...leading to this.

[RickyJB]

l have had trouble on the beach from sunglass vendors when l wouldn't buy.

l had a perfectly good set of sunglasses on & he wanted me to hand them over to him to "try them out".

He got very belligerent when l refused.

This happened twice,with different vendors.

What would he/they have done?

Broken them, so that l would have to buy from him?

As l walked away, one of them kept shouting after me, "show me. show me".

This was on Beach Road, Pattaya.

had exactly the same many times on beach road, sat at a bar and told the seller 14 times..."NO" before he got the hint... annoying pr1cks the lot of them

[csabo]

l have had trouble on the beach from sunglass vendors when l wouldn't buy.

l had a perfectly good set of sunglasses on & he wanted me to hand them over to him to "try them out".

He got very belligerent when l refused.

This happened twice,with different vendors.

What would he/they have done?

Broken them, so that l would have to buy from him?

As l walked away, one of them kept shouting after me, "show me. show me".

This was on Beach Road, Pattaya.

had exactly the same many times on beach road, sat at a bar and told the seller 14 times..."NO" before he got the hint... annoying pr1cks the lot of them

If you are saying "No" more than once, you are saying the wrong way.

[SOTIRIOS]

....on one hand.....one b*ll less Dane..

...on the other hand......probably 10,000 of these incidents....daily.....with no headlines......

[csabo]

I think the Chinese tourists bought these wallets, and found out that they were made in China.

Never heard of such crazy sellers, but I guess nowadays you need to be more pro-active to get your souvenirs sold.

I wonder if all the merchandise in China has little tags that say "Made Here".

[Gillyflower]

Don't you read the link before you post.......they were left with 4 plastic wallets.

[steve73]

Good job they weren't selling bricks or knives.....

[Tom Cahill]

Forcing Chinese people to buy something. That takes some doing.

They should have got an annoying ringer and painted their stall up like a Seven11, then they'd have no problems with ungrateful patrons.

[hawker9000]

Thai scammers, thieves, and vendors who employ forceful "sales techniques" will learn not to target kon jing... Farangs will continue to be fair game; their respective govts won't lift a finger & so Thai authorities could care less. But it's a different story for the Chinese; the new Big Brother in Beijing won't tolerate a pattern of unpunished crime against their citizens for long before calling somebody to account.

[Jingthing]

This is a standard scam at many tourist locations around the world. It's been tried on me several times. The worst was in Bali at the viewpoint for the rice terraces. Luckily, my guide kept positioning himself between us and them. We took our pic and left very quickly...sadly...

Yep, the people that say this never happens don't get out much. It's indeed very common in many places in the world. All worldly people would know that. Not commenting on the OP as I don't know exactly what happened there, but it sure COULD have happened.

[Dante99]

I always take at least 12,000 Baht with me for a day at the beach. Never know when I might want a snack or a ride back to my hotel. Now I know to take more for shopping!

[Jonmarleesco]

I have attended many sales seminars , I must have missed the sales technique where you angrily throw merchandise at prospects.

You should try returning defective merchandise, especially to a branch of a well known shop. Customer service in some Thai shops needs to start at the bottom - with basic potty training.

[FredNL]

The reason why Chinese tourist don't buy souvenirs in Thailand is, that 99,9999% of those souvenirs were made in China. They're available everywhere in China for only 1% of the Thai price.

Edited January 14, 2016 by FredNL